{"id":1012970,"date":"2026-06-08T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012970"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:30:18","slug":"digital-arrest-scam-fake-ed-officers-dupe-retired-government-employee-of-%e2%82%b987-lakh-in-nagpur-5-warning-signs-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/08\/digital-arrest-scam-fake-ed-officers-dupe-retired-government-employee-of-%e2%82%b987-lakh-in-nagpur-5-warning-signs-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital arrest scam: Fake ED officers dupe retired government employee of \u20b987 lakh in Nagpur\u2013 5 warning signs to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shocking cyber fraud case from Nagpur has once again highlighted the growing menace of \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scams. An 85-year-old retired government employee reportedly lost \u20b987 lakh after scammers posing as Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials trapped him in a fake, fabricated money laundering investigation, as reported by The Times of India.<\/p>\n<p>The basic method deployed is the use of forged documents, threats, fear and continuous video surveillance. The fraudsters tricked the senior citizen into transferring his life savings to different accounts, as instructed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shocking cyber fraud case from Nagpur has once again highlighted the growing menace of \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scams. An 85-year-old retired government employee reportedly lost \u20b987 lakh after scammers posing as Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials trapped him in a fake, fabricated money laundering investigation, as reported by The Times of India. The basic method deployed is the use of forged documents, threats, fear and continuous video surveillance. The fraudsters tricked the senior citizen into transferring his life savings to different accounts, as instructed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012971,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012970\/revisions\/1012971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}